On 23 January the PA “Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) filed the official inquiries to the Prosecutor’s Office of Belarus, the Ministry of Economics and the Ministry of Information about the situation with distribution of the TV program of Belarusian channels, asking the abovementioned bodies about the measures they would take not to allow violations of Belarusian anti-monopoly legislation and the legislation in the field of cost-forming.

On 10 February BAJ received the answer from the Prosecutor’s Office of Belarus. Head of the Board of the Prosecutor’s Office I. Padamatska informed BAJ that he readdressed its application to the Department of anti-monopoly and cost politics of the Ministry of Economics and asked it to inform the author of the application, vice-head of BAJ Andrey Bastunets about the results of investigation.